, and at one time they numbered over 1,200. Col. Biddle, of Philadelphia, who took part in the battle of Trenton, was ap- pointed by Washington to receive the swords of the Hessian officers. In the Lutheran Church, in Lebanon, many Hessian soldiers were quartered, and the United States barracks at

son, was appointed an en- sign in the Third Pennsylvania Regi- ment, in the United states, to take rank as such from the 23rd day of May, 1779, and signed by His Ex- cellency, John Jay, Esq., July, 1779. It was attested by P. Scott, secre- tary of the Board of War. In the will of William Hamilton

- came the friend of Mercer and Wash- ington. He published a sermon upon Braddock's defeat in 1755. John Penn, the proprietary Governor, was an admirer of Thomas Barton, and said, "He deserved the commen- dation of all lovers of their country." In 1759 he was elected pastor of St. James' Church

following extracts will show how many annoyances and trials he en- dured for his loyalty to the Church and state of his mother country. In Chris- topher Marshall's diary—so full of the history of our city during the war—I find, on May 22, 1778, he states: "In the evening had some conversation with several

of prominence, viz.: George Ross, Thomas Barton, James Bickham, Jacob Glatz and others. On the jury empanneled by Sheriff Matthias Slough, December 14, 1763, to investigate the murder of the Indians at their village, outside of Lancaster, were Matthias Dehuff and John Dehuff. Between the building of

township, now Delaware county, Octo- ber 20, 1692. His daughter, Bridget, �was married at Friends' Meeting to Griffith Niles, who was also born in Wales in 1670. Jeane was married to James James, November 17, 1692. Martha about the same time married Joseph Todd. These three daughters, with their

whose names appear are not accredited with ownership of any lots, leaving 341 lot holders. Some of these have more than one lot, and thus there may have �been 500 houses at the time, as Pow- nall states. These Hamilton lots were of pretty good size, 40 by 240 feet, I think. They would accommodate two